JAPANESE GOODS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1933, Page 6

JAPANESE GOODS

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Kindly allow me a small space to comment on the subject -of Japanese goods. There is no doubt something will have to be done to meet the ever-growing competition from Eastern countries. To raise the tariff high enough on Japanese goods is out of the question, as Japan would undoubtedly retaliate in the same, manner. But we could have an Act passed \ prohibiting Japanese or any other goods | being sold cheaper than British, including colonial. If the employers and workers in Japan do not want any more for their laboxir and goods, then why not allow our distributors of such goods to reap the benefit? It could be made compulsory for foreign goods to be stamped in their respective countries. Japanese goods could be priced so as to sell just a fraction below British (including, of course, colonial) to convince Japan that we wanted to give their goods a fair and square deal to sell on their merits, just as we would expect our goods to sell in Japan. If the difference in price waa only a fraction, I thinkv our people would prefer buying the British product, and it would only be a matter of time until the distributors of foreign gooda would see their large profits dwindle to normal, as the preference for British and colonial goods increased.—l am, etc., ;

FAIRPLAT.